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

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

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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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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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

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

Powell, Colin

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

Anderson, Sparky

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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

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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

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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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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

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Smith, May V.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Houston, George

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls