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

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. —W.C. Fields

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. —W. P. Kinsella

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. —Truman Capote

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. —Criss Jami


When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it. —Jim Rohn


A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. —Ayn Rand


Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. —William James

It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. —Germany Kent

Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it. —Ernest Barbaric

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. —Carl Lewis

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. —Jerome K. Jerome

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. —Charles Lamb


Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. —Og Mandino


Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. —Wayne Dyer


Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. —William James

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. —Gustave Flaubert

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. —Barack Obama

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. —Terry Pratchett

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work. —Thomas A. Edison

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here. —Donald Trump

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. —Alan Watts

More Motivational Quotes For Success

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. —Thomas Jefferson


If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. —Emile Zola

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. —Bette Midler

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down. —Abraham Lincoln

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. —Steve Maraboli

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand. —Hayley Williams

Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it. —Viktor E. Frankl

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. —Theodore Roosevelt

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. —Coco Chanel

The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow. —Roy T. Bennett

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