Motivational Quotes

Success

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

- Sweeney, Paul

Best Quotes about Success

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.