Motivational Quotes

Success

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Ewing, Sam

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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 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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.