Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

12.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

13.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

18.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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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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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.

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

Confucius

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

35.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Christopher Morley

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Powell, Colin

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

Grable, Betty

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Luckman, Charles