Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Nightingale, Earl

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.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Collins, Marva

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Henry Kissinger

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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 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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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