Motivational Quotes

Success

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

- Amos, John R.

Best Quotes about Success

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Price, Leontyne

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

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

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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.

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.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Mike Ditka

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Smith, May V.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Emily Dickinson

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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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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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Proverb

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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.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt