Motivational Quotes

Success

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

- Rouss, Charles B.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Kane, Walter

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

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

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

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

Reggie Leach

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Walters, Dottie

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 failure turned inside out.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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