Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

- Noble, Alex

Best Quotes about Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Mackay, John W.

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.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, 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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Anna Pavlova

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Wendte, C. W.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Twain, Mark

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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Houston, George

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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.