Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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.

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

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

Fettig, Art

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

Winters, Jonathan

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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

Baum, Vicki

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte