Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

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

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Christopher Morley

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Houston, George

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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.

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Rohn, Jim

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John