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

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.

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Emily Dickinson

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Haywood, Spencer

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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

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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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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times