Motivational Quotes

Success

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Holt, Hamilton

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

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.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Morley, Christopher

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kane, Walter

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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.

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Wilson, Earl

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Los Angeles Times