Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Success

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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

Twain, Mark

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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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 road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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

Wilson, Earl

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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 how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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 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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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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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 breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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

Fran Lebowitz

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.