Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Success

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Durante, Jimmy

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Twain, Mark

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Walters, Dottie

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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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 is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily