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

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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.

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

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hogan, James P.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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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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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Luckman, Charles

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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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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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Collier, Robert

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

Lady Gaga

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

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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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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Brown, Bob

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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 the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett