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

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kin Hubbard

The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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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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

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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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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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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Streisand, Barbara

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Albert Einstein

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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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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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Korda, Michael

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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

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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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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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Degreen, Keith

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

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mike Ditka

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.