Motivational Quotes

Success

Why be a man when you can be a success?

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Success

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Binstock, Louis

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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Larry Page

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Reggie Leach

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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 not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama