Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Success

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Seneca

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

Penn, Jack

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

Proverb

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Alderson, M. H.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Johnson, John

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Streisand, Barbara