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

Rohn, Jim

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Anderson, Sparky

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Johnson, John

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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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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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Brown, Bob

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Popoff, Frank

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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.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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