Motivational Quotes

Success

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

- Price, Leontyne

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Jean Giraudoux

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Wilbur Wright

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Brown, Bob

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Houston, George

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Browder, Charles

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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