Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Brown, Bob

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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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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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 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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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Degreen, Keith

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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