Motivational Quotes

Success

Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

- Houston, George

Best Quotes about Success

Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.

Luckman, Charles

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

Success is more attitude than aptitude.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

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

Peter, Laurence J.

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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

Lady Gaga

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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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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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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, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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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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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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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 is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Carson, Johnny

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Character is more important than intelligence for success.