Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

Success is failure turned inside out.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Seneca

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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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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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George 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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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.