Motivational Quotes

Success

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

- Davis Jr., Sammy

Best Quotes about Success

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

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Kin Hubbard

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

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

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Nielson, G. K.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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.

Korda, Michael

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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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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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Tracy, Brian

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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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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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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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