Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Collier, Robert

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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 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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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.