Motivational Quotes

Success

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Success

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

Albert Einstein

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Quayle, Dan

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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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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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mike Ditka

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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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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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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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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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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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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