Motivational Quotes

Success

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Success

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

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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

Henry Kissinger

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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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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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Twain, Mark

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Wilson, Charles E.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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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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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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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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Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Korda, Michael

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carson, Johnny