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

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Gambetta, Leon

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Reggie Leach

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Wilson, Earl

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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 not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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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