Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

- Bach, Dr. Marcus

Best Quotes about Success

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Seneca

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

Anna Pavlova

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Smith, May V.

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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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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