Motivational Quotes

Success

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Success

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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 is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Larry Page

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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 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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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Grable, Betty

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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin