Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Success and money have nothing in common.

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

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

Berlin, Irving

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Twain, Mark

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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