Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Los Angeles Times

Best Quotes about Success

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

Shoaff, Edgar

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Powell, Colin

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

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Albert Schweitzer

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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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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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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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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Holt, Hamilton

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony