Motivational Quotes

Success

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Best Quotes about Success

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

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

Mackay, John W.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Alderson, M. H.

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Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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

Los Angeles Times

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

Fettig, Art

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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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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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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Reggie Leach

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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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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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 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.

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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

Seneca

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

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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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