Motivational Quotes

Success

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

- Herbert Bayard Swope

Best Quotes about Success

The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Ashe, Arthur

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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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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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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

Wilson, Earl

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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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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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Reggie Leach

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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

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

Durante, Jimmy

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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