Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Thibodeau, Robert

Best Quotes about Success

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Allen, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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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 secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Henry Kissinger

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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

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

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Penn, Jack

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Albert Schweitzer

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny