Motivational Quotes

Success

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Gambetta, Leon

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Houston, George

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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

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Johnson, John

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Smith, May V.

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger