Motivational Quotes

Success

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Degreen, Keith

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, May V.

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Disney, Walt

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

Syrus, Publilius

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

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

Houston, George

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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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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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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 only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Collins, Marva

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Browder, Charles

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Anna Pavlova

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Holt, Hamilton

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Success is failure turned inside out.