Motivational Quotes

Success

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

- Helen Hayes

Best Quotes about Success

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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

Berlin, Irving

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

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Billings, Josh

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Rohn, Jim

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Wilson, Earl

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Smith, May V.

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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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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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