Motivational Quotes

Success

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Kin Hubbard

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Penn, Jack

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fillmore, Charles

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.