Motivational Quotes

Success

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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

Berlin, Irving

Success is failure turned inside out.

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Los Angeles Times

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.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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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 plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Collins, Marva

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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 follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.