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

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Twain, Mark

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Mackay, John W.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Winters, Jonathan

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Larry Page

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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

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

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Baum, Vicki

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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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

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Confucius

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

Browder, Charles

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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