Motivational Quotes

Success

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

- Houston, George

Best Quotes about Success

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

Napier, Sir Charles

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

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

Ward, William A.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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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.