Motivational Quotes

Success

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Success

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Korda, Michael

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Powell, Colin

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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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.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Holiday, Billie

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.