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

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

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Kin Hubbard

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.

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Albert Schweitzer

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hogan, James P.

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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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.