Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

Success is failure turned inside out.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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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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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Billings, Josh

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Wilson, Earl

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin