Motivational Quotes

Success

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Success

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Mike Ditka

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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