Motivational Quotes

Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney

Best Quotes about Success

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John