Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Jean Giraudoux

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.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Nunn, Gregory

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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.

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Walters, Dottie

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Grable, Betty

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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

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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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

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann