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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Wooden, John

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Henry Kissinger

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George