Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Success

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Billings, Josh

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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.

Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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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 guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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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 is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Collier, Robert

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

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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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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, 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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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 is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton