Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Little, Malcolm. W.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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

Los Angeles Times

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Billings, Josh

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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.

13.

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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Seneca

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.