Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Streisand, Barbara

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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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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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Haywood, Spencer

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Larry Page

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

Rohn, Jim

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Powell, Colin