Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Binstock, Louis

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

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Henry David Thoreau

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Carson, Johnny

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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 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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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 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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.