Motivational Quotes

Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

- Kennedy Jr., Robert

Best Quotes about Success

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Reggie Leach

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

Fettig, Art

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Johnson, John

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

Backus, Jim

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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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 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

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Henry Kissinger