Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Bach, Dr. Marcus

Best Quotes about Success

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gray, Albert

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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