Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Backus, Jim

Best Quotes about Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Ward, William A.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Collins, Marva

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Ashe, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Albert Schweitzer

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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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.

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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 like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore