Motivational Quotes

Success

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

- Houston, George

Best Quotes about Success

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Truism, Goldstein S.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Reggie Leach

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

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Michael Flatley

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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

Coffin, Harold

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Morley, Christopher

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.