Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Success

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Seneca

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Banks, Harry F.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Christopher Morley

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Brown, Bob

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Henry David Thoreau

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Alderson, M. H.

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Gambetta, Leon

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Houston, George

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Haywood, Spencer

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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Emily Dickinson

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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