Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Success

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

Baum, Vicki

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.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Proverb

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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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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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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