Motivational Quotes

Success

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Success

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Ziglar, Zig

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Ward, William A.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.