Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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 toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Holiday, Billie

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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 is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Larry Page

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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 hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.