Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Smith, May V.

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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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 means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Haywood, Spencer

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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 road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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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

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mike Ditka

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles