Motivational Quotes

Success

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Success

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Aristotle

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Larry Page

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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

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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

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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

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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

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

Korda, Michael

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Haywood, Spencer

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep