Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Powell, Colin

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Winters, Jonathan

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.