Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Success

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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.

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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

Brown, Bob

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

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

Ewing, Sam

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Crowell, Merle

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

Noble, Alex

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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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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Korda, Michael

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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Hill, Napoleon