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

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Larry Page

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

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Mike Ditka

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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

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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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 owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte