Motivational Quotes

Success

You never become a howling success by just howling.

- Harrington, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Crowell, Merle

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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 has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Durante, Jimmy

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Binstock, Louis

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Twain, Mark

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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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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.