Motivational Quotes

Success

Failure has no friends.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Success

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Rohn, Jim

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Gambetta, Leon

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Backus, Jim

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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'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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Anna Pavlova

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau