Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

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Best Quotes about Success

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

Billings, Josh

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Holt, Hamilton

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

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Powell, Colin

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Morley, Christopher

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein