Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Morley, Christopher

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.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wooden, John

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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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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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Price, Leontyne

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