Motivational Quotes

Success

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

- Kate Winslet

Best Quotes about Success

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Wooden, John

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Twain, Mark

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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 didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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