Motivational Quotes

Success

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

- Popoff, Frank

Best Quotes about Success

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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 is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Henry Kissinger

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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 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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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 is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De