Motivational Quotes

Success

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Success

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Nielson, G. K.

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Billings, Josh

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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 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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Binstock, Louis

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Wilson, Earl

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.