Motivational Quotes

Success

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

- Sweeney, Paul

Best Quotes about Success

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Jean Giraudoux

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 not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Wilbur Wright

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Collier, Robert

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova