Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Smith, May V.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Powell, Colin

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Albert Einstein

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Brande, Dorothea

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Fran Lebowitz

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Reggie Leach

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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 is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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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