Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Penn, Jack

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Brande, Dorothea

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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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