Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Success

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Collier, Robert

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Henry Kissinger

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Waitley, Denis