Motivational Quotes

Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

- Tom Peters

Best Quotes about Success

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

Twain, Mark

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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

Ewing, Sam

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Fran Lebowitz

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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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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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Durante, Jimmy

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

Browder, Charles

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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 consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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

Crowell, Merle

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer