Motivational Quotes

Success

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Best Quotes about Success

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Binstock, Louis

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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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 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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 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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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

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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.

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

Haywood, Spencer

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Anna Pavlova

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.