Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Smith, May V.

Best Quotes about Success

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Popoff, Frank

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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 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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Reggie Leach

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