Motivational Quotes

Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Anna Pavlova

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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 not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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

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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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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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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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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Fettig, Art

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Twain, Mark