Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Christopher Morley

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.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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

Collins, Marva

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Quayle, Dan

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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Popoff, Frank

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

Barack Obama

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Waitley, Denis

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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.