Motivational Quotes

Success

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

- Bliss, Edwin C.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Collier, Robert

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Binstock, Louis

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hogan, James P.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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 usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gray, Albert

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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 and money have nothing in common.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama