Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Twain, Mark

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Crowell, Merle

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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 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 can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

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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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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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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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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