Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Albert Schweitzer

Best Quotes about Success

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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.

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

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.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Christopher Morley

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Coffin, Harold

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.