Motivational Quotes

Success

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

- Durante, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Success

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Holiday, Billie

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Reggie Leach

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

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Seneca

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Allen, James

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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.

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

Twain, Mark