Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Brown, Bob

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hogan, James P.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Powell, Colin

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Houston, George

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux