Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Bach, Dr. Marcus

Best Quotes about Success

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Henry David Thoreau

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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 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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Durante, Jimmy

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 is more attitude than aptitude.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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.