Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Shoaff, Edgar

Best Quotes about Success

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Henry Kissinger

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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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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 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.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Smith, May V.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Christopher Morley

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Robbins, Anthony