Motivational Quotes

Success

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

- Besant, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Success

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

Gambetta, Leon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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.

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

Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Houston, George

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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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 occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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 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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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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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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 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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Hogan, James P.

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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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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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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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Hill, Napoleon