Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Penn, Jack

Best Quotes about Success

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Wilbur Wright

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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.

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

Collins, Marva

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Barack Obama

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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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 is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes