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

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Larry Page

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Backus, Jim

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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 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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny