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

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

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.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Reggie Leach

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Winters, Jonathan

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Browder, Charles

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Quayle, Dan