Motivational Quotes

Success

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

- Dulles, John Foster

Best Quotes about Success

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emily Dickinson

Success and money have nothing in common.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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 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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Los Angeles Times

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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

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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 largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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 have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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