Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Best Quotes about Success

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

Morley, Christopher

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Christopher Morley

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Mackay, John W.

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

Smith, May V.

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

Houston, George

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Larry Page

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren