Motivational Quotes

Success

Nothing fails like success.

- Gerald Nachman

Best Quotes about Success

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Smith, May V.

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

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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