Motivational Quotes

Success

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Success

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Emily Dickinson

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Wilson, Earl

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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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 secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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 real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

Walters, Dottie

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Coffin, Harold

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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