Motivational Quotes

Success

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Marquis, Don

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Karbo, Joe

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Grable, Betty

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus