Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Penn, Jack

Best Quotes about Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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.

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.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Rohn, Jim

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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 in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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 is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collins, Marva