Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Success

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Robbins, Anthony

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Wooden, John

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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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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

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

Wilbur Wright

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Reggie Leach

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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 man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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.