Motivational Quotes

Success

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Success

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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 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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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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 freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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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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 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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Gambetta, Leon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.