Motivational Quotes

Success

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Success

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Banks, Harry F.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Price, Leontyne

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Collier, Robert

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

Popoff, Frank

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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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 simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

Smith, May V.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wendte, C. W.

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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

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch