Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Ewing, Sam

Best Quotes about Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

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

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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

Walters, Dottie

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Caldwell, Sarah

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

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.

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.

Houston, George

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.

Johnson, John

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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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Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Browder, Charles

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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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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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

Fettig, Art

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Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hunt, Bunker

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

Durante, Jimmy

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.

Binstock, Louis

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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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

Winters, Jonathan

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success is failure turned inside out.

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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls

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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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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin