Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Anna Pavlova

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

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

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

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 is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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 can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Price, Leontyne

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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 usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Albert Schweitzer

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Thomas A. Edison

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Fettig, Art