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

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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 toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Houston, George

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

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

Reggie Leach

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Browder, Charles

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

Nunn, Gregory

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

38.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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