Motivational Quotes

Success

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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 is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Anna Pavlova

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Browder, Charles

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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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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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Hogan, James P.

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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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

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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.