Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Fettig, Art

Best Quotes about Success

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Nightingale, Earl

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Christopher Morley

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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Ewing, Sam

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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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, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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 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

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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 is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.