Motivational Quotes

Success

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

- Binstock, Louis

Best Quotes about Success

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Confucius

Success and money have nothing in common.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Ashe, Arthur

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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

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Bob

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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 in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Streisand, Barbara

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Wendte, C. W.

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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

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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.

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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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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Winters, Jonathan