Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Success

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

Mackay, John W.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Jean Giraudoux

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.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Marquis, Don

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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Nightingale, Earl

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

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

Powell, Colin

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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 is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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.