Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Shoaff, Edgar

Best Quotes about Success

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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

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.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Ward, William A.

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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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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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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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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Ewing, Sam

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Grable, Betty

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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

Seneca

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

Collins, Marva

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

Mackay, John W.

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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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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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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wilbur Wright

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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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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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

Henry David Thoreau

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Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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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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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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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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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.