Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Johnson, John

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

Anna Pavlova

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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

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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