Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Ewing, Sam

Best Quotes about Success

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

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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

Ziglar, Zig

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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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 tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Quayle, Dan

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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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.

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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 formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Disney, Walt

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 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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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Fettig, Art

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.