Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Gambetta, Leon

Best Quotes about Success

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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.

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Henry David Thoreau

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.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Johnson, John

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Wilbur Wright

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

Billings, Josh