Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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 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

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.

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

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

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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

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

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Crowell, Merle

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Browder, Charles

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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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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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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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 ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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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 has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Hogan, James P.

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...