Motivational Quotes

Success

The only journey is the one within.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Success

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

Banks, Harry F.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Wilson, Charles E.

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Durante, Jimmy

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Holiday, Billie

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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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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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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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kane, Walter

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Price, Leontyne

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

40.

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

Penn, Jack

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Ewing, Sam