Motivational Quotes

Success

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

- Joseph Addison

Best Quotes about Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

Fran Lebowitz

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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 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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Korda, Michael

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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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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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Durante, Jimmy

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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

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

Hogan, James P.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Houston, George

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.