Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Success

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Los Angeles Times

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Anna Pavlova

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Korda, Michael

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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

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Smith, May V.

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

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond