Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Christopher Morley

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

Korda, Michael

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

Ward, William A.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Johnson, John

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Brown, Bob

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Carson, Johnny

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.