Motivational Quotes

Success

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Success

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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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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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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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Christopher Morley

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.