Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walsh, Basil S.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Albert Einstein

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Browder, Charles

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Backus, Jim

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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 is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Anna Pavlova

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Streisand, Barbara

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Collins, Marva

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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