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

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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.

Landers, Ann

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

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

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.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Wilson, Earl

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, 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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kaiser, Henry 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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George