Motivational Quotes

Success

Underpromise; overdeliver.

- Tom Peters

Best Quotes about Success

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

Dorsett, Tony

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success makes success, like money makes money.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Caldwell, Sarah

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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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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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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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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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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Walters, Barbara

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

Kane, Walter

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.