Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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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

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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

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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

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Popoff, Frank

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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Collier, Robert

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Holiday, Billie

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Barack Obama

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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