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

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

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Coffin, Harold

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Mike Ditka

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

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

Brown, Bob

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

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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 counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Twain, Mark

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Crowell, Merle

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.