Motivational Quotes

Success

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Korda, Michael

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Noble, Alex

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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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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Michael Flatley

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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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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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin