Motivational Quotes

Success

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

- Thibodeau, Robert

Best Quotes about Success

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Crowell, Merle

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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 is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.