Motivational Quotes

Success

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Success

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Wendte, C. W.

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, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Powell, Colin

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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