Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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

Rohn, Jim

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

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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.

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

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

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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 the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Coffin, Harold

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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 like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.