Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Fran Lebowitz

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

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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

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Dorsett, Tony

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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 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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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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

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Emily Dickinson

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Carson, Johnny

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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My definition of success is control.