Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Success

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

Binstock, Louis

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hogan, James P.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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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

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

Popoff, Frank

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Fettig, Art

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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

Walters, Dottie

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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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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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fran Lebowitz

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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

Wilson, Earl

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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 never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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 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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Penn, Jack