Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Success

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

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Barack Obama

We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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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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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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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Korda, Michael

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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.

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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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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Ewing, Sam

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.