Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Smith, May V.

Best Quotes about Success

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

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

Aristotle

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Reggie Leach

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Collins, Marva

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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

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

Los Angeles Times

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.