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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Browder, Charles

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Larry Page

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

Confucius

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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Johnson, John

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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

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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.