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

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

Mackay, John W.

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Christopher Morley

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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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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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 has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.