Motivational Quotes

Success

Why be a man when you can be a success?

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Success

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.

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Los Angeles Times

11.

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

Grable, Betty

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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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 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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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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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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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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.

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Seneca

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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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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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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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