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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Brande, Dorothea

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Reggie Leach

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Winters, Jonathan

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.