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

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Fettig, Art

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Johnson, John

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

Larry Page

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

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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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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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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 toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael