Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Twain, Mark

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

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

Berlin, Irving

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

21.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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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 is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.