Motivational Quotes

Success

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Success

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Arthur Rubinstein

If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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.

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

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Popoff, Frank

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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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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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mike Ditka

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Walters, Dottie

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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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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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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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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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 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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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon