Motivational Quotes

Success

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

- Jackson, Reggie

Best Quotes about Success

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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.

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

Winters, Jonathan

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, John

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quayle, Dan

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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 is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Albert Schweitzer

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin