Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Penn, Jack

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Wilbur Wright

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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