Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Popoff, Frank

Best Quotes about Success

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Collier, Robert

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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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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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Binstock, Louis

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Larry Page

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Winters, Jonathan