Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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.

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

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.

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Houston, George

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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

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

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