Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Holt, Hamilton

Best Quotes about Success

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Hill, Napoleon

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wendte, C. W.

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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Ziglar, Zig

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.