Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

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

Binstock, Louis

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Rouss, Charles B.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Christopher Morley

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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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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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

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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

Henry Kissinger

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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