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

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Anna Pavlova

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Reggie Leach

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

Backus, Jim

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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.