Motivational Quotes

Success

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

- Granatelli, Andrew

Best Quotes about 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

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Houston, George

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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

Berlin, Irving

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.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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 is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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