Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Success

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

Allen, James

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shoaff, Edgar

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Carson, Johnny

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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're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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 tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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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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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Reggie Leach

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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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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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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

Michael Flatley

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.