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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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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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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Houston, George

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert