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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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

Kane, Walter

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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Houston, George

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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