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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Bob

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Luckman, Charles

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Powell, Colin

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.