Motivational Quotes

Success

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

- Arthur Rubinstein

Best Quotes about Success

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Success is failure turned inside out.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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.

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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 like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, John

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

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Mike Ditka

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis