Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

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

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Dulles, John Foster

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

Carson, Johnny

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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

Gray, Albert

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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.

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

Little, Malcolm. W.

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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Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Success is failure turned inside out.

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There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been...

Fillmore, Charles

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Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Durante, Jimmy

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

Reggie Leach

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Disney, Walt

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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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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

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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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 is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Albert Einstein

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