Motivational Quotes

Success

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Success

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Backus, Jim

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Mackay, John W.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Christopher Morley

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Twain, Mark

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Mike Ditka

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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