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

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

Ward, William A.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Reggie Leach

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

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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 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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Korda, Michael

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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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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 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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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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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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Powell, Colin

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.