Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Holt, Hamilton

Best Quotes about Success

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wendte, C. W.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Gambetta, Leon

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Coffin, Harold

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Albert Einstein

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Luckman, Charles

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill