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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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

Cronkite, Walter

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Luckman, Charles

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Powell, Colin

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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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

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

Dorsett, Tony

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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 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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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 is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ewing, Sam

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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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

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Browder, Charles