Motivational Quotes

Success

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Henry David Thoreau

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Crowell, Merle

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Rohn, Jim

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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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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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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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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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Billings, Josh

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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 in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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 something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki