Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Gambetta, Leon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Johnson, John

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

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.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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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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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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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Houston, George