Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Johnson, John

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Henry Kissinger

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.