Motivational Quotes

Success

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

- Brown, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Gray, Albert

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Wilbur Wright

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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 is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.