Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Morley, Christopher

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Johnson, Pete

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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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 only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Wilbur Wright

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Luckman, Charles

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria