Motivational Quotes

Success

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

- Jean Giraudoux

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, William A.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kane, Walter

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Noble, Alex

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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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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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.

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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