Motivational Quotes

Success

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

- Conwell, Russel H.

Best Quotes about Success

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.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Browder, Charles

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Barack Obama

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Ward, William A.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Collier, Robert

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Billings, Josh

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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

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

Mike Ditka

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

Reggie Leach

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.