Motivational Quotes

Success

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

- Robert Browning

Best Quotes about Success

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

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

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Henry Kissinger

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Reggie Leach

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Collier, Robert

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

Haywood, Spencer

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.