Motivational Quotes

Success

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

- Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Wooden, John

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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 is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Aristotle

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Christopher Morley

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

Seneca

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Morley, Christopher

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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 formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan