Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

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

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mizner, Wilson

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, May V.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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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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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Crowell, Merle

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Mike Ditka

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin