Motivational Quotes

Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Kin Hubbard

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

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

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

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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

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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Hunt, Bunker

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Penn, Jack

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh