Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Arthur Rubinstein

Best Quotes about Success

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

Korda, Michael

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gambetta, Leon

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Nightingale, Earl

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Gray, Albert

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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

Emily Dickinson

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