Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Albert Schweitzer

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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 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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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 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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Browder, Charles

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Brown, Bob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky