Motivational Quotes

Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

- Tom Peters

Best Quotes about Success

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

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Schweitzer, Albert

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Napier, Sir Charles

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Coffin, Harold

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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

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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

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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 has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Allen, James

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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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

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

Penn, Jack

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success and money have nothing in common.