Motivational Quotes

Success

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

- Robert Browning

Best Quotes about Success

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Binstock, Louis

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Brown, Bob

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Meryl Streep

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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 is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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