Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Success

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

Hogan, James P.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Popoff, Frank

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Grable, Betty

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

Anderson, Sparky

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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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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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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 success without hardship.

Sophocles