Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Haywood, Spencer

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.

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Reggie Leach

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Emily Dickinson

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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.

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Mackay, John W.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster