Motivational Quotes

Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney

Best Quotes about Success

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Alderson, M. H.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch