Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

- Wilson, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Smith, May V.

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

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Emily Dickinson

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Barack Obama

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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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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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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

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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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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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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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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