Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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

Aristotle

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Grable, Betty

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Collins, Marva

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

Brown, Bob

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reggie Leach

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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

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

Streisand, Barbara

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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