Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Browder, Charles

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Anna Pavlova

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

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

Binstock, Louis

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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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

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

Crowell, Merle

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Mike Ditka

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Christopher Morley

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Baum, Vicki