Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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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 the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.