Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Twain, Mark

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.

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.

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

Christopher Morley

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

Reggie Leach

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Holt, Hamilton

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

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