Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Barack Obama

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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.

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Crowell, Merle

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, 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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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 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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.