Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Best Quotes about Success

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Streisand, Barbara

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Haywood, Spencer

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Proverb

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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