Motivational Quotes

Success

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

- Granatelli, Andrew

Best Quotes about Success

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Popoff, Frank

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Banks, Harry F.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Henry Kissinger

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Hunt, Bunker