Motivational Quotes

Success

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Success

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Wilson, Earl

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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