Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

Binstock, Louis

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mike Ditka

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Backus, Jim

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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.