Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Luckman, Charles

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

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

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

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

Crowell, Merle

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Anna Pavlova

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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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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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Proverb

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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 and money have nothing in common.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan