Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Brown, Bob

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.

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

Marquis, Don

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Twain, Mark

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Christopher Morley

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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Berlin, Irving

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.