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

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

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Mizner, Wilson

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hunt, Bunker

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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.