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

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Cantor, Eddie

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Binstock, Louis

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

Mike Ditka

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

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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Penn, Jack

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christopher Morley

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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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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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

Shoaff, Edgar

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fillmore, Charles

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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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.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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 what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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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 in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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