Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Brown, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Barack Obama

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

Lady Gaga

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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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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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Rohn, Jim

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Carson, Johnny

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Quayle, Dan

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Michael Flatley

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Ziglar, Zig