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 how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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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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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Emily Dickinson

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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 really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schweitzer, Albert