Motivational Quotes

Success

Why be a man when you can be a success?

- Bertolt Brecht

Best Quotes about Success

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

Barack Obama

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

Hill, Napoleon

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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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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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Seneca

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.