Motivational Quotes

Success

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Success

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Korda, Michael

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Larry Page

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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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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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

Winters, Jonathan

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

Holiday, Billie

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don