Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing fails like success.

- Gerald Nachman

Best Quotes about Success

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

Brande, Dorothea

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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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 how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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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.

Christopher Morley

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Reggie Leach

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, Bob

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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 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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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