Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Hunt, Bunker

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Johnson, John

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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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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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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 man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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

Collins, Marva

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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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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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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