Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Schweitzer, Albert

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michael Flatley

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

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Durante, Jimmy

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Christopher Morley

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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

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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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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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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 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