Motivational Quotes

Success

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

- Follin, G. W.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

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

Haywood, Spencer

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Reggie Leach

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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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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

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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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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Henry Kissinger

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Wendte, C. W.

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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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

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.