Motivational Quotes

Success

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Success

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

Christopher Morley

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

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

Nunn, Gregory

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Durante, Jimmy

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Disney, Walt

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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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 road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Wilbur Wright

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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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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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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

Mizner, Wilson