Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

- Napier, Sir Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Ewing, Sam

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

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

Luckman, Charles

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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.

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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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.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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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

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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