Motivational Quotes

Success

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Success

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Syrus, Publilius

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Disney, Walt

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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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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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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 possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Billings, Josh

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 and money have nothing in common.

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

Dorsett, Tony

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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 requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny