Motivational Quotes

Success

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

- Kane, Walter

Best Quotes about Success

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Collins, Marva

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Emily Dickinson

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Seneca

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Luckman, Charles

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Albert Schweitzer

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.