Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Johnson, John

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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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

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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 not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wendte, C. W.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reggie Leach

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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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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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

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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

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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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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald