Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Carson, Johnny

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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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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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Berlin, Irving

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.