Motivational Quotes

Success

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Success

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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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

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Smith, May V.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Luckman, Charles

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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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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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