Motivational Quotes

Success

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Success

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Holt, Hamilton

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Durante, Jimmy

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Johnson, John

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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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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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 is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

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

Morley, Christopher