Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Gambetta, Leon

Best Quotes about Success

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

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hogan, James P.

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Gray, Albert

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Noble, Alex

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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Banks, Harry F.

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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