Motivational Quotes

Success

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Success

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Coffin, Harold

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.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Berlin, Irving

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Ward, William A.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne