Motivational Quotes

Success

People fail forward to success.

- Mary Kay Ash

Best Quotes about Success

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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

Hogan, James P.

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

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

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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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 path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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 only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Anna Pavlova

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Emily Dickinson

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.