Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wooden, John

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.