Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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

Twain, Mark

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Wells, H.G.

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

Christopher Morley

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Michael Flatley

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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