Motivational Quotes

Success

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Best Quotes about Success

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holiday, Billie

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Popoff, Frank

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim