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 to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Backus, Jim

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

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

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

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Michael Flatley

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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

Syrus, Publilius

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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 person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.