Motivational Quotes

Success

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about 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.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Powell, Colin

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Morley, Christopher

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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 is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey