Motivational Quotes

Success

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

- Casson, Herbert N.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Degreen, Keith

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

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.

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

Powell, Colin

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

Christopher Morley

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Morley, Christopher

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Fettig, Art

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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 not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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 challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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