Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Success

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Streisand, Barbara

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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.

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.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Smith, May V.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Winters, Jonathan

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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