Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Banks, Harry F.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fettig, Art

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Disney, Walt

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria