Motivational Quotes

Success

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Barack Obama

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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 the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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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 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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Ashe, Arthur

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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