Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Dyer, Wayne

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama