Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Success

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Henry Kissinger

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Quayle, Dan

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Banks, Harry F.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Aristotle

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt