Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

- Napier, Sir Charles

Best Quotes about Success

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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

Noble, Alex

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

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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 the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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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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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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