Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Success

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

Korda, Michael

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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

Mike Ditka

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Jean Giraudoux

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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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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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 young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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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

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

Allen, James

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Fran Lebowitz

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

Karbo, Joe

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea