Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Morley, Christopher

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.

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 in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

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

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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.

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Ewing, Sam

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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

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.