Motivational Quotes

Success

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.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Marquis, Don

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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

Streisand, Barbara

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

Quayle, Dan

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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

Aristotle

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

Henry Kissinger

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Woody Allen

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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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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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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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.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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

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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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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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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

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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

Binstock, Louis

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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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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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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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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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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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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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