Motivational Quotes

Success

Why be a man when you can be a success?

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Success

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Mike Ditka

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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 is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Reggie Leach

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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 progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Bob

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.