Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Degreen, Keith

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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.

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

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Brown, Bob

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Smith, May V.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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 the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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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

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.