Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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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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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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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Buck, Pearl S.

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Wilson, Earl

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Brande, Dorothea