Motivational Quotes

Success

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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Best Quotes about Success

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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.

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

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Binstock, Louis

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Winters, Jonathan

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Wilson, Earl

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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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

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

Mike Ditka

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

Christopher Morley

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

Baum, Vicki

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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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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

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma