Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Success

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mackay, John W.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Carson, Johnny

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Houston, George

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Emily Dickinson

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

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

Disney, Walt

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Barack Obama

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

Popoff, Frank

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Marquis, Don

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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