Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Haywood, Spencer

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Penn, Jack

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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.

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

Emily Dickinson

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Johnson, John

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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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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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.