Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Success

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Wilson, Earl

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Disney, Walt

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Nielson, G. K.

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Wendte, C. W.

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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 what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

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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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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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

Christopher Morley