Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

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

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

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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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Nielson, G. K.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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 doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Proverb

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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