Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Ewing, Sam

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

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

Collier, Robert

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Smith, May V.

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

Twain, Mark

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Dorsett, Tony

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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