Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a journey, not a destination.

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Success

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

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

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Smith, May V.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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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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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, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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 is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Coffin, Harold

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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 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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis