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

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

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.

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.

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

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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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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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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 is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fettig, Art

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger