Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Holiday, Billie

Best Quotes about Success

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Churchill, Winston

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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 not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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

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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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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Twain, Mark

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David