Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Reggie Leach

Best Quotes about Success

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

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Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Brown, Bob

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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

Henry Kissinger

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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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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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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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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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 no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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

Reggie Leach

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