Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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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.

2.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

3.

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

Popoff, Frank

4.

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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 isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

10.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Disney, Walt

12.

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

Allen, James

13.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

15.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

16.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

17.

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

Holiday, Billie

18.

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

24.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

25.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

26.

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

Nielson, G. K.

27.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

28.

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

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

32.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

33.

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

34.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

35.

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

37.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

38.

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

39.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

40.

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

41.

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

Smith, May V.

42.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

43.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

44.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

49.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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