Motivational Quotes

Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Durante, Jimmy

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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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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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Reggie Leach

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset