Motivational Quotes

Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Success

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

My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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

Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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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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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Albert Einstein

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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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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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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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.