Motivational Quotes

Success

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Mackay, John W.

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

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.

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Johnson, John

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Brown, Bob

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters