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

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Mike Ditka

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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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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 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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Los Angeles Times

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Twain, Mark

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Reggie Leach

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Houston, George

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward