Motivational Quotes

Success

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

- Brown, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Anna Pavlova

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Grable, Betty

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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 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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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Twain, Mark

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mike Ditka

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

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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.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Fettig, Art