Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

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

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 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

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

Twain, Mark

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.

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Seneca

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

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emily Dickinson

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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 person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Fettig, Art

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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 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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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