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

Henry David Thoreau

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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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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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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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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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Powell, Colin