Motivational Quotes

Success

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Success

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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 usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Backus, Jim

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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.