Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Success

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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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

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

Johnson, John

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Fran Lebowitz

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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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.