Motivational Quotes

Success

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Success

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Korda, Michael

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Brown, Bob

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.