Motivational Quotes

Success

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Success

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

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

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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

Reggie Leach

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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

Carson, Johnny

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

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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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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Johnson, Pete

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

Quayle, Dan

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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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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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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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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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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John