Motivational Quotes

Success

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Smith, May V.

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Aristotle

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Collier, Robert

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.