Motivational Quotes

Success

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

- McEnroe, John

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Los Angeles Times

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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.

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Twain, Mark

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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.

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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 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 is failure turned inside out.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Michael Flatley

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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