Motivational Quotes

Success

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

- Durante, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Arthur Rubinstein

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collins, Marva

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Holiday, Billie

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces