Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Luckman, Charles

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Quayle, Dan

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 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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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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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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 not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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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 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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.