Motivational Quotes

Success

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

- Little, Malcolm. W.

Best Quotes about Success

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Houston, George

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Johnson, John

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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Seneca

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

Fettig, Art

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reggie Leach

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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 usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.