Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Success

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Browder, Charles

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Churchill, Winston

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Korda, Michael

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Albert Einstein

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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

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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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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

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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rohn, Jim

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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 successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Alderson, M. H.

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