Motivational Quotes

Success

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Success

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Proverb

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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 breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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 not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Karbo, Joe

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Twain, Mark

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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 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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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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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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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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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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