Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Nightingale, Earl

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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 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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Reggie Leach

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.