Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Success

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

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

Wilson, Earl

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Barack Obama

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Ward, William A.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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 breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Collins, Marva

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Churchill, Winston

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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.