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

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Baum, Vicki

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Marquis, Don

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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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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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Twain, Mark

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.