Motivational Quotes

Success

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

- Cantor, Eddie

Best Quotes about Success

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Barack Obama

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Brown, Bob

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Anna Pavlova

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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 is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Wilson, Earl

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.