Motivational Quotes

Success

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Reggie Leach

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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Luckman, Charles

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Ewing, Sam

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Johnson, John

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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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.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.