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

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

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Crowell, Merle

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Jean Giraudoux

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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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.

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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... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb