Motivational Quotes

Success

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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

Luckman, Charles

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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

Fettig, Art

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Anna Pavlova

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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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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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

Henry Kissinger

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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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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We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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

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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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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 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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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

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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 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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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Binstock, Louis

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.