Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

- Caldwell, Sarah

Best Quotes about Success

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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 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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Streisand, Barbara

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

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

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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 are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau