Motivational Quotes

Success

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

- Alderson, M. H.

Best Quotes about Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Twain, Mark

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kin Hubbard

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Johnson, John

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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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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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

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Reggie Leach

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore