Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Degreen, Keith

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Coffin, Harold

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Dorsett, Tony