Motivational Quotes

Success

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Success

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Browder, Charles

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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

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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.

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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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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

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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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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.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch