Motivational Quotes

Success

We fall forward to succeed.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Success

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

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.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Streisand, Barbara

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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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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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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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 trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Browder, Charles

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete