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 is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Morley, Christopher

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Brown, Bob