Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Marden, Orison Swett

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bombeck, Erma

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Billings, Josh

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Browder, Charles

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Baum, Vicki

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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 will find the key to success under the alarm clock.