Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

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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

2.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

3.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

4.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

6.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

8.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

12.

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

Disney, Walt

13.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

14.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

15.

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

16.

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

17.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

18.

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

Walters, Dottie

19.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

20.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

21.

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

22.

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

Michael Flatley

23.

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.

24.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

25.

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.

26.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

30.

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

Nielson, G. K.

31.

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

Winters, Jonathan

32.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

33.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

34.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

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

Kane, Walter

36.

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

Degreen, Keith

37.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

38.

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

39.

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Collier, Robert

43.

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

Houston, George

44.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

47.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

48.

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

49.

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

Los Angeles Times

50.

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