Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Success

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Seneca

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Smith, May V.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Jean Giraudoux

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Barack Obama

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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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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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Los Angeles Times

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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 leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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