Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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

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.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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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

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

Seneca

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Fettig, Art

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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 I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Coffin, Harold

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Korda, Michael

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

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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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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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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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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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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin