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

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

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

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Houston, George

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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Backus, Jim

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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.

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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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

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

Korda, Michael

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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 climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Nunn, Gregory

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Los Angeles Times

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.