Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Bach, Dr. Marcus

Best Quotes about Success

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Lady Gaga

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Christopher Morley

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Binstock, Louis

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David 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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Los Angeles Times

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael