Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Browder, Charles

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

Ward, William A.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Albert Schweitzer

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mike Ditka

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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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

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Henry Kissinger

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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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Twain, Mark

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Morley, Christopher