Motivational Quotes

Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Success

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Henry David Thoreau

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

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

Browder, Charles

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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 best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Alderson, M. H.

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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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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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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Quayle, Dan

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Proverb

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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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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.