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

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Price, Leontyne

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Smith, May V.

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Johnson, John

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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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

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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