Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Backus, Jim

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Ward, William A.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Holiday, Billie

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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 freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 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

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

Morley, Christopher

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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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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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

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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People fail forward to success.