Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Jean Giraudoux

Best Quotes about Success

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

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mackay, John W.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Nielson, G. K.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne