Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Durante, Jimmy

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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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 isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Degreen, Keith

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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

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

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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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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Fettig, Art

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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

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Why be a man when you can be a success?