Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Mike Ditka

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Korda, Michael

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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 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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Berlin, Irving

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Anna Pavlova

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill