Motivational Quotes

Success

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

- McEnroe, John

Best Quotes about Success

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Degreen, Keith

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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 failure turned inside out.

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Disney, Walt

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

Ward, William A.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Ewing, Sam

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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 a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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.

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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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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.