Motivational Quotes

Success

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

- Fairless, Benjamin F.

Best Quotes about Success

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Disney, Walt

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

Henry Kissinger

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Ward, William A.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Proverb

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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

Ewing, Sam

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.