Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Gray, Albert

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

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Albert Einstein

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Brown, Bob

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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 way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold