Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Reggie Leach

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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.

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 is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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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

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

Houston, George

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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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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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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

Mike Ditka

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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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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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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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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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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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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