Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Popoff, Frank

Best Quotes about Success

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

Mike Ditka

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wooden, John

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fettig, Art

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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 can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Michael Flatley

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Browder, Charles

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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