Motivational Quotes

Success

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about 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.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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.

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Popoff, Frank

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Wilson, Earl

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Mackay, John W.

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

Allen, James

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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 measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Coffin, Harold

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you