Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Success

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.

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

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

Browder, Charles

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

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

Grable, Betty

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

Luckman, Charles

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Disney, Walt

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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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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 isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Coffin, Harold

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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 Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Berlin, Irving

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte