Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Success

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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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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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Crowell, Merle

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.