Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Collins, Marva

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Powell, Colin

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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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

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Anna Pavlova

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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.

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Disney, Walt

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Morley, Christopher

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.