Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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

Penn, Jack

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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

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

Alderson, M. H.

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.