Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Luckman, Charles

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Twain, Mark

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ward, William A.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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