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

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

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

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

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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.

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Allen, James

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Ewing, Sam

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nunn, Gregory

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep