Motivational Quotes

Success

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

Best Quotes about Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Emily Dickinson

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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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

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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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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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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 measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

Crowell, Merle

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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

Ewing, Sam

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.