Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Success

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

Banks, Harry F.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Ward, William A.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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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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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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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 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 sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Larry Page

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Carson, Johnny