Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Shoaff, Edgar

Best Quotes about Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry Kissinger

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

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

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Waitley, Denis

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

Houston, George

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Barack Obama

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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