Motivational Quotes

Success

Success has always been a great liar.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Success

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

Marden, Orison Swett

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, May V.

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Christopher Morley

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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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 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