Motivational Quotes

Success

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

- Mike Ditka

Best Quotes about Success

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

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

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

Luckman, Charles

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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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

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Baum, Vicki

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters