Motivational Quotes

Success

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

- Smeltzer, Ruth

Best Quotes about Success

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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.

2.

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

3.

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

Shoaff, Edgar

4.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

5.

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

6.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

7.

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

8.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

9.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

12.

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

13.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

14.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

15.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

16.

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

Syrus, Publilius

17.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

18.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

19.

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

Brande, Dorothea

20.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

21.

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

22.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

23.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

24.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

29.

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

Crowell, Merle

30.

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

35.

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

36.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

37.

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

Gray, Albert

38.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

39.

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

40.

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

41.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

42.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

43.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

44.

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