Motivational Quotes

Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Success

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Durante, Jimmy

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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

Twain, Mark

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

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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

Wilbur Wright

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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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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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Ewing, Sam

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Penn, Jack

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

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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.

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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

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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 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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep