Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Ewing, Sam

Best Quotes about 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

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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

Caldwell, Sarah

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Ziglar, Zig

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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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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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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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

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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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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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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Nightingale, Earl