Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Cronkite, Walter

Best Quotes about Success

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Mike Ditka

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Degreen, Keith

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Aristotle

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Brown, Bob

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Smith, May V.

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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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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

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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