Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Confucius

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

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

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Quayle, Dan

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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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 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

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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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 maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb

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

Karbo, Joe

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It is more important to be of service than successful.