Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

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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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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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.

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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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 in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.