Motivational Quotes

Success

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

- Ashe, Arthur

Best Quotes about Success

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Franki

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

Anderson, Sparky

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

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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

Rohn, Jim

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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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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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

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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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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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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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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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

Christopher Morley

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If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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

Albert Einstein

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

Seneca

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Earl

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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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