Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Korda, Michael

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Collier, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Crowell, Merle

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

Hitopadesa

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

Walters, Dottie

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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.

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

Holt, Hamilton

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Penn, Jack

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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 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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Seneca

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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