Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Fillmore, Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Barack Obama

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

Albert Schweitzer

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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 gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Smith, May V.

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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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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, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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 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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Disney, Walt

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

Jean Giraudoux

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Johnson, John

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Collins, Marva

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.