Motivational Quotes

Success

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

- Cantor, Eddie

Best Quotes about Success

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

Proverb

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

Bombeck, Erma

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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 in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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 not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Powell, Colin

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

Los Angeles Times

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie