Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Success

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Peter, Laurence J.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Success and money have nothing in common.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Christopher Morley

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Durante, Jimmy

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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 going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Brown, Bob

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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 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

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Mike Ditka

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You never become a howling success by just howling.