Motivational Quotes

Success

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Success

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Winters, Jonathan

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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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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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gambetta, Leon

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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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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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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Success and money have nothing in common.

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When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Twain, Mark

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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.

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Seneca

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.