Motivational Quotes

Success

The only journey is the one within.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Success

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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.

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.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Penn, Jack

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Browder, Charles

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

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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 is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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.