Motivational Quotes

Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Success

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

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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

Anderson, Sparky

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

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

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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

Rohn, Jim

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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 not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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

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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Luckman, Charles

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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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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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

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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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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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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 tempts many to their ruin.