Motivational Quotes

Success

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

- Haywood, Spencer

Best Quotes about Success

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Winters, Jonathan

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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 best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Rohn, Jim

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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 not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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 means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony