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

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

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

Emily Dickinson

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Cronkite, Walter

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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 makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Gray, Albert

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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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 dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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