Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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.

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.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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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

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Backus, Jim

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Wendte, C. W.

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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