Motivational Quotes

Success

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

- Jackson, Reggie

Best Quotes about Success

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Popoff, Frank

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Reggie Leach

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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 the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ward, William A.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Tracy, Brian

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob