Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Seneca

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

Fettig, Art

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Christopher Morley

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

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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

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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