Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Price, Leontyne

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Dorsett, Tony

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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 always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin