Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Baum, Vicki

Best Quotes about Success

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Confucius

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.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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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.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Collins, Marva

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Seneca

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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