Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Proverb

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Hogan, James P.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Penn, Jack

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Ewing, Sam

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

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Pete

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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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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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Johnson, John

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

Mizner, Wilson