Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Success

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mizner, Wilson

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Anna Pavlova

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

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Mike Ditka

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

Collier, Robert

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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 challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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 breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Smith, May V.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Carson, Johnny

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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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 not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim