Motivational Quotes

Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney

Best Quotes about Success

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.