Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Thibodeau, Robert

Best Quotes about Success

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fettig, Art

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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 is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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 don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Reggie Leach

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama