Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Best Quotes about Success

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

Rohn, Jim

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

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Powell, Colin

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Twain, Mark

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Brande, Dorothea

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Brown, Bob

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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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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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Luckman, Charles

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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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