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 is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Binstock, Louis

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Twain, Mark

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

Success is failure turned inside out.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Nielson, G. K.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Powell, Colin

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

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Seneca

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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Proverb

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Success action is cumulative in its results.