Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Holiday, Billie

Best Quotes about Success

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Banks, Harry F.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Browder, Charles

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Brande, Dorothea

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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.

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

Collins, Marva

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Fettig, Art

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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 can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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