Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

- Hogan, James P.

Best Quotes about Success

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mackay, John W.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Johnson, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Twain, Mark

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

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Fettig, Art

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

Henry David Thoreau

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

Helen Hayes

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carson, Johnny

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success doesn't suck.