Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Christopher Morley

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

Karbo, Joe

Success is failure turned inside out.

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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