Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Fillmore, Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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.

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

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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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

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Browder, Charles

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.