Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Alderson, M. H.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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.

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.

Success and money have nothing in common.

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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.

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... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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