Motivational Quotes

Success

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

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

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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

Collier, Robert

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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Coffin, Harold

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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

Larry Page

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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

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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.