Motivational Quotes

Success

Success doesn't suck.

- Rucker, Darius

Best Quotes about Success

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Smith, May V.

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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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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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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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Houston, George

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca