Motivational Quotes

Success

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

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

Luckman, Charles

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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

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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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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Gambetta, Leon

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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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 is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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.

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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 only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Price, Leontyne

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob