Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing fails like success.

- Gerald Nachman

Best Quotes about Success

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Price, Leontyne

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

Gambetta, Leon

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Nunn, Gregory

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Houston, George

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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 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 penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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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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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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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

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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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 has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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

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

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes