Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Coffin, Harold

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Fillmore, Charles

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht