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

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Browder, Charles

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Marquis, Don

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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 is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Brown, Bob

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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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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces