Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ashe, Arthur

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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.

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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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

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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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

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Johnson, John

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

Seneca

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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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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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.

House, Jay

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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

Larry Page

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

Mizner, Wilson

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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 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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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.