Motivational Quotes

Success

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Success

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

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Disney, Walt

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Larry Page

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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 toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Smith, May V.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Morley, Christopher