Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Penn, Jack

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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 is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Reggie Leach

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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

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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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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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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

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.