Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing fails like success.

- Gerald Nachman

Best Quotes about Success

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Rohn, Jim

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

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

Gray, Albert

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

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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.

Karbo, Joe

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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 goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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 isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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 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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Barack Obama

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert