Motivational Quotes

Success

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

- Davis Jr., Sammy

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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 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.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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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 a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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 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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Morley, Christopher

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tracy, Brian

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Earl

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Barack Obama

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van