Motivational Quotes

Success

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

- Robert Browning

Best Quotes about Success

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Walters, Dottie

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Ewing, Sam

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Johnson, John

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew