Motivational Quotes

Success

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Success

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Los Angeles Times

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Smith, May V.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope