Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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 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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.