Motivational Quotes

Success

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Success

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Anderson, Sparky

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Morley, Christopher

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Crowell, Merle

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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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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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Korda, Michael

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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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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Failure has no friends.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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

Korda, Michael

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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

Ewing, Sam

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

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

Marquis, Don

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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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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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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.