Motivational Quotes

Success

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

1.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

2.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

3.

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

4.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

5.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

6.

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

Albert Schweitzer

7.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

8.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

9.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

10.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

11.

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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

15.

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

16.

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

Hunt, Bunker

17.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

18.

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

19.

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

20.

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

Gray, Albert

21.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

23.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

24.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

27.

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.

28.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

29.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

30.

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

31.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

32.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

35.

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

Billings, Josh

36.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

38.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

39.

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

40.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

42.

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

Holiday, Billie

43.

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

44.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

45.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

46.

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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

48.

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

50.

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.