Motivational Quotes

Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Binstock, Louis

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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.

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Reggie Leach

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Seneca

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.