Motivational Quotes

Success

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

- Walters, Barbara

Best Quotes about Success

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

Kane, Walter

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Marquis, Don

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Disney, Walt

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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.

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

Houston, George

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Gray, Albert

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Browder, Charles

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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

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Holt, Hamilton

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Napier, Sir Charles