Motivational Quotes

Success

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Haywood, Spencer

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Reggie Leach

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Lady Gaga

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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 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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Alderson, M. H.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.