Motivational Quotes

Success

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Success

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

Brown, Bob

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Wilson, Earl

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, John

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Anna Pavlova