Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Success

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

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

You never become a howling success by just howling.

Harrington, Bob

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

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

Coffin, Harold

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Gibson, Mimfa A.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Collins, Marva

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

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You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Smeltzer, Ruth

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Streisand, Barbara

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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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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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Popoff, Frank

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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Namath, Joe

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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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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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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Seneca

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Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

Wendte, C. W.

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -- persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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We fall forward to succeed.

Ash, Mary Kay

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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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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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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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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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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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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

Nielson, G. K.

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The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent