Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

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 a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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.

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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 key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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 do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Seneca

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis