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 is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Rohn, Jim

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Gambetta, Leon

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Twain, Mark

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Popoff, Frank

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fettig, Art

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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.

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Seneca

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki