Motivational Quotes

Success

Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

- Truism, Goldstein S.

Best Quotes about Success

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

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

You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Jean Giraudoux

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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 is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Rohn, Jim

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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.

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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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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Durante, Jimmy

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.