Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Michael Flatley

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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 as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Wooden, John

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Luckman, Charles

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles