Motivational Quotes

Success

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

- Bush, Barbara

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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

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

Mike Ditka

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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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.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles