Motivational Quotes

Success

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Success

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

Collins, Marva

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

Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

Hitopadesa

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

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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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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 will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Walters, Dottie

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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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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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

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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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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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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

Henry David Thoreau

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Henry Kissinger

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Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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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 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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Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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 comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success action is cumulative in its results.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus