Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Reggie Leach

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wendte, C. W.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Emily Dickinson