Motivational Quotes

Success

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Success

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

Kin Hubbard

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

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Los Angeles Times

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

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Backus, Jim

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Morley, Christopher

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon