Motivational Quotes

Success

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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Best Quotes about Success

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Caldwell, Sarah

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Kane, Walter

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Gambetta, Leon

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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

Collins, Marva

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson