Motivational Quotes

Success

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Michael Flatley

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kane, Walter

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Quayle, Dan

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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 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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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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

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Los Angeles Times

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Brown, Bob

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

Kin Hubbard

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.