Motivational Quotes

Success

Failure has no friends.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Success

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

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

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

Houston, George

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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fettig, Art

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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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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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.