Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Ewing, Sam

Best Quotes about Success

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Syrus, Publilius

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walters, Dottie

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Johnson, Pete

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, 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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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mike Ditka

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Binstock, Louis

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.