Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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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

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Albert Einstein

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

Korda, Michael

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

Rouss, Charles B.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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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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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Marquis, Don

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Waitley, Denis

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.