Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Popoff, Frank

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Noble, Alex

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

Korda, Michael

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Larry Page

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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 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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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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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.

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright