Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Smith, May V.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Ewing, Sam

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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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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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Grable, Betty

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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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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.