Motivational Quotes

Success

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Success

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Ward, William A.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Coffin, Harold

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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 leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.