Motivational Quotes

Success

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

- Beaux, Gilberte

Best Quotes about Success

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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.

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Winters, Jonathan

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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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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

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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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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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Price, Leontyne

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Mizner, Wilson