Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Best Quotes about Success

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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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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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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Thomas A. Edison

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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.

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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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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.