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

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.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Baum, Vicki

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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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.

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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 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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Mike Ditka

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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 can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Emily Dickinson

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.