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.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Fettig, Art

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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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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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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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

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Proverb

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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 real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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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