Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Los Angeles Times

Best Quotes about Success

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Houston, George

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Syrus, Publilius

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 more attitude than aptitude.

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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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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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 means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Ziglar, Zig