Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Kane, Walter

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

Mizner, Wilson

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Barack Obama

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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 not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Mike Ditka

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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.