Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Success

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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.

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

Barack Obama

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.