Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Berlin, Irving

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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.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Albert Schweitzer

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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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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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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 is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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