Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Binstock, Louis

Best Quotes about Success

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

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Seneca

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Disney, Walt

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Christopher Morley

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Ward, William A.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.