Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Hogan, James P.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Mackay, John W.

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Bombeck, Erma

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Powell, Colin

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Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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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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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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

Albert Schweitzer

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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

Larry Page