Motivational Quotes

Success

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Crowell, Merle

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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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

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Houston, George

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Twain, Mark

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Smith, May V.

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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

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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.