Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

- Ashe, Arthur

Best Quotes about Success

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Anna Pavlova

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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 that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Quayle, Dan

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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