Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Success

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nielson, G. K.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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