Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Success

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Allen, James

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

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

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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

Binstock, Louis

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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 only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Korda, Michael

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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Brown, Bob

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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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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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Wilbur Wright

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Nielson, G. K.

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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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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie