Motivational Quotes

Success

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

- Emmons, G.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Los Angeles Times

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

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

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

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

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Confucius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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 is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Smith, May V.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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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.

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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