Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Marquis, Don

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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, 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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Binstock, Louis

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Confucius

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Brown, Bob

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Backus, Jim

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Anna Pavlova

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters