Motivational Quotes

Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Twain, Mark

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Arthur Rubinstein

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Allen, James

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Powell, Colin

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

Collins, Marva

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca