Motivational Quotes

Success

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

- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Success

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Keller, Helen

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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

Billings, Josh

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

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

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Nunn, Gregory

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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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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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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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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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Rohn, Jim

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

Houston, George

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Jackson, Reggie

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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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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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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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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

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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Kaiser, Henry J.

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A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

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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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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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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 nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Rohn, Jim

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My definition of success is control.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Noble, Alex

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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.