Motivational Quotes

Success

It is more important to be of service than successful.

- Kennedy Jr., Robert

Best Quotes about Success

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

Proverb

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

Anna Pavlova

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

Houston, George

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Bob

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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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

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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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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.