Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Billings, Josh

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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 succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus