Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

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

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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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.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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 gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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 is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.