Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Success

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Nightingale, Earl

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Mike Ditka

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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

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reggie Leach

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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

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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