Motivational Quotes

Success

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

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Best Quotes about Success

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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

Kane, Walter

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

Meryl Streep

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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

Jean Giraudoux

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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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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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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

Los Angeles Times

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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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 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.

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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