Motivational Quotes

Success

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

- Davis Jr., Sammy

Best Quotes about Success

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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 has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Smith, May V.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Grable, Betty

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Coffin, Harold

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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 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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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John