Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Price, Leontyne

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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.

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

Mackay, John W.

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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

Luckman, Charles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Korda, Michael

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

Gambetta, Leon

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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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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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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