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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Christopher Morley

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

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

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Houston, George

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Banks, Harry F.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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 action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.