Motivational Quotes

Success

To give your best is to receive the best.

- Holliwell, Raymond

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wilson, Earl

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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

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

Seneca

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Winters, Jonathan

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.