Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

Brown, Bob

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Carson, Johnny

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

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

Seneca

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Fettig, Art

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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 not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Johnson, John

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.