Motivational Quotes

Success

Success makes success, like money makes money.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Success

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Ziglar, Zig

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Durante, Jimmy

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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 is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Kin Hubbard

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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.

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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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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.