Motivational Quotes

Success

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Success

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Robbins, Anthony

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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 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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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay