Motivational Quotes

Success

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Success

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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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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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ewing, Sam

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Hill, Napoleon

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Mackay, John W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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 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