Motivational Quotes

Success

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

- Smith, May V.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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.

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Aristotle

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

Wilson, Earl

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

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Barack Obama

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.