Motivational Quotes

Success

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

Success is failure turned inside out.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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.

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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.

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Ewing, Sam

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Pete

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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