Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Success

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

Fettig, Art

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

Fillmore, Charles

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.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Durante, Jimmy

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Thackeray, William M.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Fran Lebowitz

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The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

Fitzgerald, Ernest A.

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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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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Powell, Colin

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is not something you get out of what you do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Allen, James

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles