Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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 dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Hill, Napoleon

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Confucius

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Christopher Morley

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.