Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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 your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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 counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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 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