Motivational Quotes

Success

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Best Quotes about Success

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Holiday, Billie

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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 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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Henry Kissinger

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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.

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama