Motivational Quotes

Success

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Brande, Dorothea

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Ziglar, Zig

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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 is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Holiday, Billie

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces