Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Brande, Dorothea

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Houston, George

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

Alderson, M. H.

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

Christopher Morley

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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

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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 is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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 gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Disney, Walt

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is failure turned inside out.

35.

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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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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