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 to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Waitley, Denis

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Powell, Colin

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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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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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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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

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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

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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

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

Barack Obama

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hunt, Bunker

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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 action is cumulative in its results.