Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Confucius

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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 road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Quayle, Dan

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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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 and money have nothing in common.

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Fettig, Art

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Browder, Charles

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney