Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Success

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

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

Disney, Walt

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

Mike Ditka

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

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Reggie Leach

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Coffin, Harold

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Brown, Bob

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Brande, Dorothea

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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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

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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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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.