Motivational Quotes

Success

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Michael Flatley

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Fillmore, Charles

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

Buffett, Warren

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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 road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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