Motivational Quotes

Success

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

- Truism, Goldstein S.

Best Quotes about Success

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hogan, James P.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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.

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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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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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

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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

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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 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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Ewing, Sam

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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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

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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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 peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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.