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

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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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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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

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

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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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

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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