Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Seneca

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Reggie Leach

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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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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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. 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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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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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman