Motivational Quotes

Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Albert Schweitzer

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.

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Proverb

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Penn, Jack

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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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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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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 what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fillmore, Charles

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael