Motivational Quotes

Success

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Success

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Houston, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Twain, Mark

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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 in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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

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

Fettig, Art

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.