Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Mike Ditka

Best Quotes about Success

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

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

Disney, Walt

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Streisand, Barbara

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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

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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 follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Morley, Christopher

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

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

Binstock, Louis