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

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

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Ewing, Sam

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

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

Wendte, C. W.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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 leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Rohn, Jim

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Mike Ditka

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Larry Page

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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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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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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

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

Smith, May V.

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig