Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Napier, Sir Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Streisand, Barbara

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Barack Obama

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Browder, Charles

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Mike Ditka

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Fettig, Art

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.