Motivational Quotes

Success

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Success

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Success is failure turned inside out.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 and money have nothing in common.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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 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

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success makes success, like money makes money.