Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Mike Ditka

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ward, William A.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Fettig, Art

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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 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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Brown, Bob

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.