Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Rouss, Charles B.

Best Quotes about Success

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

Success and money have nothing in common.

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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You always pass failure on the way to success.