Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

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

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Mike Ditka

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Fettig, Art

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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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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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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.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Morley, Christopher

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin