Motivational Quotes

Success

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Houston, George

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

Tracy, Brian

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Smith, May V.

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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

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Christopher Morley

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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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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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Wendte, C. W.