Motivational Quotes

Success

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

- Mike Ditka

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

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

Fettig, Art

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wooden, John

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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 is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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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 is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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