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 owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Morley, Christopher

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Smith, May V.

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Binstock, Louis

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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.