Motivational Quotes

Success

Success has always been a great liar.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Success

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Aristotle

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig