Motivational Quotes

Success

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Success

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

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

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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.

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

Crowell, Merle

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Backus, Jim

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl