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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Larry Page

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

Gambetta, Leon

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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.

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Ewing, Sam

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Luckman, Charles

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Walters, Dottie

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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Fettig, Art

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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People fail forward to success.