Motivational Quotes

Success

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Seneca

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Grable, Betty

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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 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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Mike Ditka

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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 has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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.

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

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Crowell, Merle

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.