Motivational Quotes

Success

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

- Robert Browning

Best Quotes about Success

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Larry Page

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Proverb

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Reggie Leach

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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

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Seneca

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

Browder, Charles

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.