Motivational Quotes

Success

The road to success runs uphill.

- Davis, Willie

Best Quotes about Success

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

Proverb

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

Success and money have nothing in common.

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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 is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Confucius

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.