Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Gambetta, Leon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Nielson, G. K.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

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

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

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Johnson, John

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Korda, Michael

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Mackay, John W.

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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

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Seneca

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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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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca