Motivational Quotes

Success

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

- Granatelli, Andrew

Best Quotes about Success

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Luckman, Charles

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

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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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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 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.

Morley, Christopher

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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.

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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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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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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 by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Brown, Bob

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns