Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Nightingale, Earl

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Korda, Michael

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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

Noble, Alex

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Gambetta, Leon

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles