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

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

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Thibodeau, Robert

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

Success is failure turned inside out.

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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

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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 the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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 know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Twain, Mark

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

Walters, Dottie

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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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

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.