Motivational Quotes

Success

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

- Cantor, Eddie

Best Quotes about Success

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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 the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Ashe, Arthur

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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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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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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Binstock, Louis

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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

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard