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 going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Success is failure turned inside out.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Los Angeles Times

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes