Motivational Quotes

Success

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Disney, Walt

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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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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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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 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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Gambetta, Leon

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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 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

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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

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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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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Browder, Charles

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Berlin, Irving

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Walters, Dottie

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe