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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Larry Page

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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 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

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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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

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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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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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Houston, George

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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