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

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

Coffin, Harold

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara