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 the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

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

Price, Leontyne

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

Binstock, Louis

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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.

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Morley, Christopher

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas