Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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.

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

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

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

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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 is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Browder, Charles

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.