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

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Holiday, Billie

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.

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

Fettig, Art

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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 not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Barack Obama

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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