Motivational Quotes

Success

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Success

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Houston, George

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

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.

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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 didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

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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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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.