Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Dyer, Wayne

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Price, Leontyne

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Banks, Harry F.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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