Motivational Quotes

Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

- Tom Peters

Best Quotes about Success

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Brande, Dorothea

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Crowell, Merle

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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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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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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.