Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a journey, not a destination.

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Success

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Anna Pavlova

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 and money have nothing in common.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Mike Ditka

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

Henry David Thoreau

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Christopher Morley