Motivational Quotes

Success

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

Wilbur Wright

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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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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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Fettig, Art

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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

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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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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.

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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 comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Quayle, Dan

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