Motivational Quotes

Success

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

- Penn, Jack

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Streisand, Barbara

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Reggie Leach

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

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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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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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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 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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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Brown, Bob

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

Proverb

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Price, Leontyne

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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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