Motivational Quotes

Success

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

- David Nicholls

Best Quotes about Success

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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

Wilson, Charles E.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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

Smith, May V.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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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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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

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David