Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Mizner, Wilson

Best Quotes about Success

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.

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

Grable, Betty

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

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Wilbur Wright

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

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

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Arthur Rubinstein

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Marquis, Don

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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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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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Ashe, Arthur

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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

Barack Obama

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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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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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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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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Tracy, Brian

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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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