Motivational Quotes

Success

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

- Amos, John R.

Best Quotes about Success

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

Degreen, Keith

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

Thibodeau, Robert

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Albert Einstein

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

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

Wilson, Earl

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It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.

Amos, John R.

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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 is a journey, not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

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

Seneca

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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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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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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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.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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.

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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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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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Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Binstock, Louis

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fettig, Art

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.