Motivational Quotes

Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Morley, Christopher

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Twain, Mark

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Powell, Colin

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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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 is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emily Dickinson

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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

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas