Motivational Quotes

Success

Success tempts many to their ruin.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Success

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Wilson, Earl

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

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Nightingale, Earl

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyke, Leroy Van

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

Binstock, Louis

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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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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Browder, Charles

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To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Degreen, Keith

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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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 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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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Nightingale, Earl

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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

Baum, Vicki

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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

Backus, Jim

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

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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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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

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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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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Fran Lebowitz

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I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Walters, Dottie

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Marquis, Don