Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

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

Caldwell, Sarah

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Aristotle

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.