Motivational Quotes

Success

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

- Barack Obama

Best Quotes about Success

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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.

Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Mackay, John W.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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 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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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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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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Smith, May V.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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