Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher