Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Kin Hubbard

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Kane, Walter

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Brown, Bob

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

Tracy, Brian

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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