Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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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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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 is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Haywood, Spencer

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

Berlin, Irving

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Penn, Jack

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Aristotle

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Shoaff, Edgar