Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Collins, Marva

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

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.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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 tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Walters, Dottie

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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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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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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 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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark