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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Allen, James

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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, 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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 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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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've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Smith, May V.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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