Motivational Quotes

Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

- Tom Peters

Best Quotes about Success

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Popoff, Frank

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 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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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.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reggie Leach

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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