Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Larry Page

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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 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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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.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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, 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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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 means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Browder, Charles

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Robbins, Anthony