Motivational Quotes

Success

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

- Ewing, Sam

Best Quotes about Success

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Alderson, M. H.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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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

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Barack Obama

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Robbins, Anthony

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Marquis, Don

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Wooden, John

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals