Motivational Quotes

Success

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Success

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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 can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Penn, Jack

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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 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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.