Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Success

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Henry David Thoreau

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Churchill, Winston

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Fettig, Art

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Fran Lebowitz

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne