Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Napier, Sir Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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

Popoff, Frank

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Smith, May V.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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 how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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 is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reggie Leach

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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