Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

- Christopher Lasch

Best Quotes about Success

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

Alderson, M. H.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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

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.

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

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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 secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Proverb

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Robbins, Anthony

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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.