Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Mike Ditka

Best Quotes about Success

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Penn, Jack

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

Barack Obama

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

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Proverb

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Luckman, Charles

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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