Motivational Quotes

Success

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

- Shoaff, Edgar

Best Quotes about Success

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Penn, Jack

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

Wilson, Earl

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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

Mackay, John W.

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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 is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Emily Dickinson

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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 is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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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 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

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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.