Motivational Quotes

Success

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Larry Page

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Holt, Hamilton

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

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

Korda, Michael

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Brown, Bob

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Ewing, Sam

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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.

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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Nielson, G. K.