Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Success and money have nothing in common.

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Johnson, John

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Reggie Leach

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.