Motivational Quotes

Success

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Holt, Hamilton

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.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

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

Larry Page

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wendte, C. W.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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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 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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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, 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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Collins, Marva

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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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