Motivational Quotes

Success

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

- Houston, George

Best Quotes about Success

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Carson, Johnny

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Crowell, Merle

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, May V.

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Mackay, John W.

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