Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Success

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Reggie Leach

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

Napier, Sir Charles

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Degreen, Keith

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Brown, Bob

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

Grable, Betty

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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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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

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Seneca

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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 a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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 man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Morley, Christopher

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Disney, Walt

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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

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Ward, William A.

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