Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Success

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

Morley, Christopher

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Churchill, Winston

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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 only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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