Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Success

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Noble, Alex

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

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.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Carson, Johnny

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Powell, Colin

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Nunn, Gregory

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Durante, Jimmy