Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ewing, Sam

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Jean Giraudoux

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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.

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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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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

42.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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