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

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Albert Schweitzer

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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 don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

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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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill