Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Browder, Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

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.

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

Wendte, C. W.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilson, Charles E.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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 is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Streisand, Barbara

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Johnson, John

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles