Motivational Quotes

Success

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Success

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Mackay, John W.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Berlin, Irving

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Carson, Johnny

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus