Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Gray, Albert

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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 person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Houston, George

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Alderson, M. H.

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.