Motivational Quotes

Success

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Billings, Josh

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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, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Ward, William A.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria