Motivational Quotes

Success

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Success

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Brande, Dorothea

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emily Dickinson

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Twain, Mark

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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 common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton