Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Morley, Christopher

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Fettig, Art

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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

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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

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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

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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

Mike Ditka

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emily Dickinson

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Reggie Leach

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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 means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Christopher Morley

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger