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

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Dorsett, Tony

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

Penn, Jack

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

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Browder, Charles

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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

Gray, Albert

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Ziglar, Zig

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Crowell, Merle

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Wendte, C. W.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille