Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Wendte, C. W.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

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

Berlin, Irving

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Korda, Michael

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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

Johnson, John

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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.

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

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

Coffin, Harold