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

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gambetta, Leon

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Price, Leontyne

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Quayle, Dan

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Mike Ditka

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Seneca

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley