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

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Johnson, Pete

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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.

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

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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 is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rohn, Jim

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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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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: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey