Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Albert Einstein

Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Kin Hubbard

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Reggie Leach

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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.

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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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 man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas