Motivational Quotes

Success

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Success

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

Baum, Vicki

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Albert Einstein

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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Wolfe, Thomas

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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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