Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Success

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Marquis, Don

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

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Syrus, Publilius

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Hogan, James P.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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 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.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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 means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Churchill, Winston