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

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ewing, Sam

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Collins, Marva

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

Robbins, Anthony

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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 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 is failure turned inside out.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Wilson, Earl

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter