Motivational Quotes

Success

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Success

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Rohn, Jim

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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

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

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert