Motivational Quotes

Success

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

- Robert Browning

Best Quotes about Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

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

Brown, Bob

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Robbins, Anthony

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Walters, Dottie

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ward, William A.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Disney, Walt

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

Luckman, Charles

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Carson, Johnny

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Fettig, Art

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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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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Lady Gaga

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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

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus