Motivational Quotes

Success

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

- Binstock, Louis

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Larry Page

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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.

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

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

Nielson, G. K.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Walters, Dottie

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Christopher Morley

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Durante, Jimmy

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Seneca

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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 don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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 is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Los Angeles Times

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