Motivational Quotes

Success

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Success

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl