Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Success

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Churchill, Winston

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Twain, Mark

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

Noble, Alex

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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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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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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 secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

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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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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Carson, Johnny

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Ziglar, Zig

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The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Berlin, Irving

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

Collins, Marva

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Henry Kissinger

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

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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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You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

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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

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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

Albert Schweitzer

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.