Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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 no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Binstock, Louis

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

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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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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 breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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 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

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.