Motivational Quotes

Success

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

- David Nicholls

Best Quotes about Success

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

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

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 to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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 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 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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Christopher Morley

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.