Motivational Quotes

Success

The only journey is the one within.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Success

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Billings, Josh

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Backus, Jim

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ewing, Sam

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

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Browder, Charles

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

Popoff, Frank

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Carson, Johnny

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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