Motivational Quotes

Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney

Best Quotes about Success

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rohn, Jim

Success is failure turned inside out.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Morley, Christopher

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle