Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Aristotle

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Los Angeles Times

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Seneca

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Banks, Harry F.

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Brown, Bob

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Allen, James

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

Quayle, Dan

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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 no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Houston, George

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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