Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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

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

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carson, Johnny

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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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 a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

Los Angeles Times

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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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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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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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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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

Fettig, Art

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

Wilson, Earl

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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.

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Crowell, Merle

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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