Motivational Quotes

Success

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Success

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

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Dorsett, Tony

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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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 no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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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, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 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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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

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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'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Coffin, Harold

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Morley, Christopher

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb

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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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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