Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Albert Einstein

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.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Price, Leontyne

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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 that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Reggie Leach

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

Walters, Dottie

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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 do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Kane, Walter

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

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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 to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Houston, George

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.