Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no success without hardship.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Arthur Rubinstein

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Holiday, Billie

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

Binstock, Louis

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.

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

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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

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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Nielson, G. K.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Walters, Dottie

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe