Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Popoff, Frank

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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.

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

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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

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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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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Fettig, Art

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Houston, George

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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 person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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.

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