Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Reggie Leach

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fettig, Art

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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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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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Haywood, Spencer

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Popoff, Frank

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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 gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Mike Ditka

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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