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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Syrus, Publilius

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Disney, Walt

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.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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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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

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Christopher Morley

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Fettig, Art

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Morley, Christopher

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet