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

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

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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.

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

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Albert Schweitzer

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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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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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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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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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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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 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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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